Support Call 1-29-20
This Call Covers:
Nicholeen talks about mental health
Helping you children get good friends
Setting boundaries with friends
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Tone
Support Call 1-22-20
This Call Covers:
Preventing yourself from micromanaging
Helping your introvert children “fit in”
Children going out of control
Using the 4 basic skills with other adults
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Support Call 1-15-20
This Call Covers:
How to help my family understand my vision
Micromanaging and touchy children
Masturbation in teenagers
Helping a spouse change their attitude
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10 Lessons for Listening With Love
Much emotional agony is avoided and more relationship healing is possible when a person learns to listen with love. There were two similar conversations that had very different results. The first conversation was between a mother and her son. The son told his mother about a problem he was having with a friend, but she
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How To Create Magical Family Memories
As I held my 15-year-old son’s hand and watched the magic of Christmas unfold around me with lights and nativity displays at the city center, I felt that date with my son was a parent’s dream come true. Who doesn’t dream of the perfect parent/child memory? We all want them, but could our desire for
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Making Any Holiday the Perfect Holiday
During this time of year when there are lists of things to do and places to go, don’t forget this one simple truth: people are more important than things. People are worth more of our focus than lists. We may think that the lists of things make the holiday perfect for the people, but that
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Support Call 12-18-19
This Call Covers:
How to tell if excuses are legitimate
Setting up appropriate routines and chores for young children
Helping children stay in instructional control pt. 2
Calming down very young children
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A Vow to be Positive
Some might think that optimistic people are fake or somehow disconnected from reality, but I know for a fact that positivity is one of our choices no matter what circumstances are before us. Russell Nelsontaught that our “joy has little to do with the circumstances of our lives, but everything to do with the focus
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Support Call 12-11-19
This Call Covers:
Spouses who are onboard with TSG, but the Implementation Course is too long
Consistency struggles as a parent
Getting a family adjusted to a new TSG system
Helping an emotionally manipulative child
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Support Call 12-4-19
This Call Covers:
Helping young children learn language boundaries
Impulse control and consequences
Children and families with strong emotions
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Family Traditions that Bind or Break or Unity for Christmas
Family traditions instill personal and family identity and bind families together throughout their many phases of growth and change. After children and grandchildren are grown and gone off to live their adult lives, the traditions remain as reminders of the sweetness of home and family, what is most important in life, and who they really
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Support Call 11-20-19
This Call Covers:
Helping teens who complain a lot
Young children who are silly
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1 Easy Way to Wrap Your Holiday Gatherings In Love
“Do you see those sweet sisters over there? They inspire me. They couldn’t be more different, but they also couldn’t be more full of love toward each other than they are,” a friend of mine pointed out to me one day about two ladies who were her good friends. She went on to explain, “One
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Support Call 11-5-19
This Call Covers:
TSG during the holidays and family functions
Eye contact durring corrections
Improving connections and tone with children
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“Choose Not to Be Harmed”
One day my father told me something so profound that it literally changed my social life and my personal empowerment forever. After I finished telling him about how another child at school had been mean to me, he said, “Nicholeen, sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you.” I’m guessing
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Support Call 10-30-19
This Call Covers:
Discussing the seperation between emotion and logic in parenting
Parents disagreeing appropriately with each other
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Support Call 10-23-19
This Call Covers:
Helping small children deal with separation anxiety
Passive-Agressive out of control children
Learning to love children who won’t show love back
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Who Drives You Crazy?
“But what if they just keep talking back and are driving me crazy,” a mother asked me while I was instructing a group of parents on how to teach their children to accept “no” answers. The mother of three told the group she knew she needed help becausesometimes she feels so crazy, or out of
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Support Call 10-16-19
This Call Covers:
Helping children with confidence while maintaining humility
Depression in children after divorce
Keeping children focused and motivated for homeschool
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Can I Use TSG with Someone Else’s Child? – Part 2
After responding to the woman who teaches Primary at church with my initial, general tips on how to use self-government principles in the classroom she wrote me back the following:
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